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Ordering an anonymous and partially sequestered jury Monday for the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, a federal judge rejected claims that doing so would unfairly color the drug kingpin as a dangerous man.

Amid protests against the U.S. political system inside and outside the courthouse, a federal judge Monday assembled a jury of seven women and five men for a long-anticipated corruption trial of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s former right-hand man, Joseph Percoco.

A California appeals court ruled Friday that a trial judge properly chucked a $7.1 million jury award to former LA Times sports columnist T.J. Simers, agreeing a damages retrial is necessary to determine how to apportion the award.

A New York appeals court Thursday ordered a new trial for a robbery suspect, finding the trial court erred in declining to instruct a jury on the ramifications of cross-racial misidentifications in the case of a black teenager accused of heisting cellphones from white men.

Lawyers for the man acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a woman on a San Francisco pier want a new trial on the only charge for which he was found guilty: being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Despite “serious concerns” cited by one justice, the Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up an Alabama death penalty case in which attorneys said black jurors were improperly excluded from the condemned man’s jury.

A man who confessed to killing his girlfriend will get a new trial, after the New York appeals court found he was denied a fair trial for second-degree murder because a juror failed to disclose she had applied for a job as an assistant district attorney.

New Yorkers laid out their favorite television shows, job responsibilities and their travel experiences in South America on Wednesday and Thursday as attorneys worked to select a jury for the much-anticipated FIFA bribery trial.

Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. Then he heard the words most prospective jurors pray for: You’re dismissed.

Three liberal justices dissented Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of a challenge to Florida’s death-sentencing procedures, saying the high court should have decided whether jurors being told their verdict was merely advisory diminished their sense of responsibility.